101 Great Posting Ideas For Your Blog - Part 2

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Here’s the second part of the 101 Great Posting Ideas That Will Make Your Blog Sizzle. I assume that you have read and explored the first part.

1. Browse through a thesaurus and see if synonyms help spark ideas for your posts.
2. Respond to criticism in a post (e.g., respond to the Wall Street Journal’s criticism of bloggers).
3. Write a post like you are telling a story.
4. Spruce up your posts with pictures.
5. Post about frequently asked questions in your niche.
6. Pose a rhetorical question in your post.
7. Post about what’s popular and why it’s beneficial ( e.g., “Twitter” for tech blogs).
8. Pose a hypothesis and conclusion in your post.
9. Support your post with related post links.
10. Make a [blank] for dummies post.
11. Post a picture that speaks a thousand words.
12. Buy a how-to book from a bookstore and use some of the ideas from that book to generate ideas for posting (e.g., a book about Photoshop).
13. Look at the archives of your niche competitors and see if any of their old posts can be expanded in an “update” post on your blog.
14. Post with a personality (e.g., John Chow is evil).
15. Write about how to do something more efficiently in your niche.
16. Write about generally unknown secrets in your niche.
17. Write about how to use a product in an unconventional way.
18. Do a post transcribing live events (e.g., Macworld conference).
19. Dissect an argument in a post.
20. Make a post summarizing someone else’s post.
21. Make a post about how things have changed from the past.
22. Make a post that expands on someone else’s post.
23. Create a post that incorporates the words, “desperate” and “futile”.
24. Make a post alleging a conspiracy (e.g., Is there a Digg Bury Brigade?).
25. Make a post that encourages visitors to subscribe by offering a reward.
26. Make a post that involves New York City, London, San Francisco or Sydney.
27. Make a post that incorporates in the title the word “crossover”.
28. Create a post that utilizes a bar chart or pie chart.
29. Create a post that has a cliff hanger to be answered in a later post.
30. Make a post about pitfalls in your niche.
31. Participate in a reciprocal guest blogging scheme where you blog on someone else’s blog and that other person blogs on your blog.
32. Do a paid posting targeted to your readers.
33. Profile the competition in your niche.
34. Post linkbait.
35. Make a post about your fellow bloggers’ top posts.
36. Make a post about your most popular posts.
37. Read some sports (or other genre) magazines and incorporate some of the writing styles in your posts.
38. Write a post that pinpoints similarities and differences.
39. Write a post giving a free recommendation.
40. Write a post about something that is merely “good�? but not “great�?.
41. Write a post about a hack for your niche.
42. Make a post that constructively criticizes someone else’s post.
43. Run a poll and post the results of that poll.
44. Ask your loyal readers to email you links to their best resources and make a post about what you found.
45. Write only about a particular theme for a week.
46. Designate each day of the week as a theme day where you will always post about a particular topic on that day.
47. Review your blog’s (weekly, monthly, yearly) performance and post the results.
48. Write an “attack�? post by setting up an argument and then shooting it down.
49. Combine some of your best posts from your archives into a new series.
50. Hold a conference via blog posts.
51. Make a “101 ideas�? post.

I really like a 101 post as it always catches the readers’ attention and stands tall among the rest. I hope that in the near future I could make my first a 101 post myself. Hey, didn’t I just do it?